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Enlarge ImageRequest to buy this photoJoseph Fuqua IIGeorge Clooney, third from left, and the crew of "The Ides of March" work at 3rd Street and Elm Street in downtown Cincinnati in February.

VENICE, Italy (AP) -- George Clooney's highly anticipated new movie about the Ohio Democratic
primary of a U.S. presidential campaign will open this year's Venice Film Festival.

Much of "The Ides of March," which stars Clooney, Ryan Gosling, Paul Giamatti and Philip Seymour
Hoffman, was filmed in several locations in Cincinnati and Oxford, Ohio.

Festival organizers said Wednesday that the movie will be competing for the coveted Golden Lion
award. The film will have its world premiere screening on Aug. 31 following the festival's opening
ceremony.

The festival runs through Sept.10.

The Oscar-winning Clooney has often attended the Venice film fest. The Hollywood star has a
villa on Lake Como and an Italian girlfriend.